Ideas for Further Customization: Weapon Pools!

Just weapons? *Ahem*
The best way to do this.
1:Take every primary available, pick two powers from it, preferably a tier 1 and something "distinctive" about the powerset.
2:Pick a secondary that thematically "Matches" it, do the same.

3:Scale this new power pool similarly to current power pools, especially fighting for the melee/armor sets, in terms of damage, accuracy, recharge, end cost, debuffage, holdage, range e.t.c.
4: Make available right alongside the other power pools at level four
5: Make it so current primary/secondary choices exclude certain picks, particularly "Doubles" and things like claws with shields
7:???
8: profit

I'd love to see stuff like this added to the game. It would greatly increase diversity of concepts.

Ancillaries are so far down The line, so archetype-specific, and so limited in application that they are barely relevant to the idea of expanding character themes, abilities, or concepts.

Ancillaries are more icing on the cake.

I'm talking about allowing for more creative freedom at the near-start of the game.

These aren't supposed to have anything to do with ancillaries and more based on the normal pool powers and their application.

I see what you mean, and I just use Ancilliary because I don't have a better word. I suppose it's somewhat like the extra weapons you can unlock in a certain other game based off a comic book universe.

Added one for Staff Fighting

You know what? I absolutely love this idea.

It almost certainly would run into technical limitations, unfortunately, but one of the (few) things I've always envied in CO was the ability to just grab a power or two from outside of your primary sets for flavour, fun or some funky min-maxing. More customization is almost always a plus in my eyes, and while we have more powers and more costume pieces coming out monthly now, being able to give my characters some flavour powers or have some more useful picks on my power-light characters (I'm looking at you, forcefields!) would be worth every minute of production time.

I think it is a great idea

Yeah, because responding to YOUR thread from no more than a month ago really demands a call for that. Isn't that why everyone is constantly yelling at new posters to "search first?" So that when they search, we can make fun of them for necro-posting?

As far as I'm concerned, the idea is still good, and I still want to see this as an epic power pool. I keep throwing the idea around to people I team with in-game and I get mostly positive responses.

I still maintain that melee characters - all of them - really need to have access to at least a pistols pool, a rifle pool and a bow pool. They don't have to be major, just as long as my Katana Scrapper can shoot guns at people.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Still a good idea! I also feel that melee toons should have access to at least some ranged attacks, and in turn, ranged toons should have some melee attacks other than Brawl or Kick.

Hurl just isn't enough for tanks to take on fliers or snipers!

Still a good idea, that I hadn't seen before. I support it and would like to see it implemented.

I think these would be better suited as Epic Pools than normal pools. While I DO understand the desire to round out your concept earlier on, but even if it was available then I'd wait until the 30s to slot what I need over what I want.

I know. We figured that out a while back...no worries.

I still say I'd take these as power pools, and all that that entails as in reduced damage output, redraw etc., over an "epic" power pool.

As somebody that plays a really really gimped /devices melee fighter, as in all his attacks come from assorted power pools and vet powers, I've managed to get to level 24 almost entirely solo and have fun.

So, I'm fairly certain that, even with reduced damage/redraw etc taken into account, I'd love to do the same with a load of ranged attacks onto what is supposed to be a melee character and have as much, if not more fun, due to having the good toggles to cover my can built into the character.

Overall I think that they should be Epic Power Pools with ranged weapons (Dual Pistols, Assault Rifle, ect) be made available only to melee toons (Scrapper, Brute, ect) and melee weapons (Swords, Staff, ect) only to ranged toons. Whips, I'm not sure about. Maybe melee.

This could easily be expanded to encompass not just weapons, but virtually any other power set. A slice of four attack powers from Martial Arts for example or maybe Kinetic Melee.
Heh, I could envision toons that only had one or two powers from their primary sets and the rest filled out with pools, and really, I see nothing wrong with that!

Power Pools for all!

I would think that if you have purchased a power set then the pool should also be unlocked for you. I doubt that every power set would be suitable. Beast Master for example, I just don't think you could make a balanced four power pool from it or any of the Master Mind pet sets for that matter.

And I could maybe see some limitations, not really sure it would be all that great to give a martial artist toon access to four repeat powers for example.

But by and large, you should be able to make most of the power sets work out as power pools.